Anecdotal - yes. Worthless - no.
What's even worse - the MCSE bozos generally screw up more stuff than they fix.
Running Windows is like throwing money down a rat hole.
Gartner was hired to do a private study. The study leaked. Gartner now refuses to comment on its findings either way. M$ FUD and intimidation again.Macs better value than PCs - official
By Macworld staff
New research explodes the myth that Macs are more expensive than PCs to buy and run.
Noted research analyst Gartner found Macs are up to 36 per cent more cost- effective than competing PC products.
The study was conducted at Melbourne University's Faculty of the Arts, which uses 4,676 Macs and 5,338 Wintel machines. It compared direct costs such as hardware and software for desktops and mobile computers, servers and peripherals, upgrades, service and support and depreciation. It also examined the indirect costs of supporting end-users, training time and non-productive downtime.
Gartner found that Macs cost $1,114 to support per year, while PC-based systems cost $1,438. Macs also needed less technical support and hardware and software costs were lower, the report explains.
I resemble that remark... as a computer consultant for a number of small businesses married to Windows because of required software, I am sitting at the bottom of that "rat hole" collecting a lot of that money.
On the other hand, those businesses I have convinced to go Mac have not regretted it... and I don't collect nearly as much money as I used to from them!